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  • Without Roots

    Europe, Relativism, Christianity, Islam

    by Joseph Ratzinger, Marcello Pera ...
    On May 12, 2004, Pope Benedict XVI - then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger-addressed the Italian Senate on the state of the West; the very same day, Joseph Pera, President of the Italian Senate, spoke before the Lateran College of the Papal University. Together they called upon the West to confront the spiritual, cultural, and political malaise that have afflicted it in the earliest years of the 21st ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Scientific Controversies

    Philosophical and Historical Perspectives

    Edited by Peter Machamer, Marcello Pera, Aristides Baltas ...
    Traditionally it has been thought that scientific controversies can always be resolved on the basis of empirical data. Recently, however, social constructionists have claimed that the outcome of scientific debates is strongly influenced by non-evidential factors such as the rhetorical prowess and professional clout of the participants. This volume of previously unpublished essays by well-known ... Read more

    $148.49 USD

  • Why We Should Call Ourselves Christians

    The Religious Roots of Free Societies

    by Marcello Pera ...
    The intellectual and political elite of the West is nowadays taking for granted that religion, in particular Christianity, is a cultural vestige, a primitive form of knowledge, a consolation for the poor minded, an obstacle to coexistence. In all influential environments, the widespread watchword is We are all secular” or We are all post-religious.” As a consequence, we are told that states must ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Rational Changes in Science

    Essays on Scientific Reasoning

    Edited by Joseph C. Pitt, Marcello Pera ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    THE PROBLEMS OF SCIENTIFIC RATIONALITY Fashion is a fickle mistress. Only yesterday scientific rationality enjoyed considerable attention, consideration, and even reverence among phi losophers; "but today's fashion leads us to despise it, and the matron, rejected and abandoned as Hecuba, complains; modo maxima rerum, tot generis natisque potens - nunc trahor exui, inops", to cite Kant for our ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • One Nation Under God

    How Corporate America Invented Christian America

    by Kevin M. Kruse ...
    **From a New York Times-bestselling author, the provocative and authoritative history of the origins of Christian America in the New Deal era“Fascinating.” —Washington Post**We're often told that the United States is, was, and always has been a Christian nation. But in One Nation Under God, historian Kevin M. Kruse reveals that the belief that America is fundamentally and formally Christian ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Behind the Exclusive Brethren

    by Michael Bachelard ...
    Out of nowhere in 2004, an obscure religious sect burst onto the political stage in Australia. Almost unheard of until then, the Exclusive Brethren was suddenly spending up big in election advertising in support of conservative political parties. But its members were shy to the point of paranoia about who they were — preferring, as they said, to ‘fly under the radar’. Brethren members assiduously ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Raised Right

    How I Untangled My Faith from Politics

    by Alisa Harris ...
    Meet the new breed of Christians shaping our culture.Alisa Harris grew up in a family that actively fought injustice and moral decay in America. She spent much of her childhood picketing abortion clinics and being home-schooled in the ways of conservative-Republican Christianity. As a teen she firmly believed that putting the right people in power would save the nation.But as she moved into ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Struggle for Power in Early Modern Europe

    Religious Conflict, Dynastic Empires, and International Change

    by Daniel H. Nexon ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in International History and Politics
    Scholars have long argued over whether the 1648 Peace of Westphalia, which ended more than a century of religious conflict arising from the Protestant Reformations, inaugurated the modern sovereign-state system. But they largely ignore a more fundamental question: why did the emergence of new forms of religious heterodoxy during the Reformations spark such violent upheaval and nearly topple the ... Read more

    $41.79 USD

  • My Way

    A Muslim Woman's Journey

    by Mona Siddiqui ...
    Polarized debates about 'Islam' and 'the West' are now so ubiquitous that it is easy to forget how damaging they can be. The vast majority of Muslims do not wish to see Islam used as a divisive force within the largely secular societies in which they live. How then can Muslim stereotyping be challenged? Mona Siddiqui is one of the foremost Western authorities on the reconciliation of 21st-century ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Let's Not Forget God

    Freedom of Faith, Culture, and Politics

    by Cardinal Angelo Scola, John L. Allen Jr. ...
    Born out of a speech celebrating the 1,700th anniversary of the Edict of Milan, in which emperors Constantine I and Licinius granted Christians legal rights, this book by Cardinal Angelo Scola gives attention to the crisis of religious freedom in the twenty-first century. Let’s Not Forget God outlines how Christianity has been at the center of creating a pluralistic society, from the Roman Empire ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • A History of Prejudice

    Race, Caste, and Difference in India and the United States

    by Gyanendra Pandey ...
    This is a book about prejudice and democracy, and the prejudice of democracy. In comparing the historical struggles of two geographically disparate populations - Indian Dalits (once known as Untouchables) and African Americans - Gyanendra Pandey, the leading subaltern historian, examines the multiple dimensions of prejudice in two of the world's leading democracies. The juxtaposition of two very ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Christian

    The Politics of a Word in America

    by Matthew Bowman ...
    A Publishers Weekly Best Religion Book of the YearA Choice Outstanding Academic TitleFor many Americans, being Christian is central to their political outlook. Political Christianity is most often associated with the Religious Right, but the Christian faith has actually been a source of deep disagreement about what American society and government should look like. While some identify Christianity ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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